I completely agree with this post and I also feel burned out by ~~assholes~~ making economical decisions to build software. I've decided to fight it by writing.
My motivation was: Can I flip the engineering mind towards understanding that well-built software can be a reasonable economic bet too?
My article is called "On Technical Yield (and Technical Debt)": [link redacted]
I've also been annoyed about scope creep as it's been my manager colleagues favorite micromanagement argument. Scope creep can be a great thing: [link redacted]
My motivation was: Can I flip the engineering mind towards understanding that well-built software can be a reasonable economic bet too?
My article is called "On Technical Yield (and Technical Debt)": [link redacted]
I've also been annoyed about scope creep as it's been my manager colleagues favorite micromanagement argument. Scope creep can be a great thing: [link redacted]
Let's just do things differently.